Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Whether you call in it programming or training, the designers still designed a car that doesn't obey traffic laws.

People need to get it out of their heads that AI is some kind of magical monkey-see-monkey-do. AI isn't magic, it's just a statistical model. Garbage in = Garbage out. If the machine fails because it's only copying us, that's not the machine's fault, not AI's fault, not our fault, it's the programmer's fault. It's fundamentally no different, had they designed a complicated set of logical rules to follow. Training a statistical model is programming.

You're whole "explanation" sounds like a tech-bro capitalist news conference sound bite released by a corporation to avoid guilt for running down a child in a crosswalk.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I also have strong opinions about Christmas lights.

Unfortunately, they do not perfectly align with Technology Connections. We agree is almost all respects: flickering is bad, purple is not a valid Christmas color, white lights should be warm and not bluish. I just can't agree about this one thing though, I LOVE the super saturated colors of LEDs for the red, blue, and green lights. I care much less about the saturation of the yellow and/or orange lights.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lots of good reasons geocaches shouldn't be buried. I'd have reported this one.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago

I find this take fascinating because, although I also like watching athletes and sports, I see the fandom and names as a huge soap opera cast. I just can't keep up with any of it, the names, the injuries, the rivalries, the trades. It's all just a bunch of banal meaningless drama to me that I will never have the enthusiasm to track. It's all the same old shit from season to season with a rotating cast of hot young fools, just like General Hospital. As such I can't talk sports with people. I can watch, but the events wash over me without the same meaning or substance. For that reason, flamboyant and over-the-top drama (like hot tempers, trash talking, and general mischief) that happens during play is actually interesting as long as it isn't too unsportsman-like and doesn't interfere with the game too much. The soap opera drama is boring, the sports is interesting, but the performance and affectations are spicy.

To be clear, your take is totally valid and I'm not really critical of it at all. I just have a different perspective.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago

If they weren't going to make a panhandle out of the panhandle, they could have at least put it down at the bottom angling from Biscayne Bay down to Key West.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

Next time you tape over it, try this. Cut an old credit card, hotel key card, or something similar to just larger than the switch's recess. Tape only the top edge to the machine so that the stiff plastic or cardboard covers the switch, but can be lifted up and out of the way when you need to access it. I've used a similar trick to protect light switches I wanted to occasionally use, but not accidentally flip along with the other switches in the next gang over.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sorry, that's not what I see.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 21 points 5 months ago (9 children)

It's an American magazine, written in American English for an American audience about American racism. You're the one assuming that every article needs to be written for a globalized audience. How would that even be possible for a complicated, nuanced, and hyper-localizef social disorder like racism?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Both are measurements of cross-sectional AREA and are defined in terms of square millimeters (mm^2), not mm.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 5 months ago

BitTorrent wasn't even launched until AFTER Napster was shutdown.

The mention of Napster would have put the original download this tweet refers to as happening sometime before July 2001. But, it's entirely possible they were using Napster as a generic term for any number of the other protocols around in 2002, most of which didn't have the ability to resume. BitTorrent would have been the anomaly here for its resumabilty, but was rarely used for music privacy at the time. PirateBay and Demonoid launching later in 2003.

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